Outlet Reviews

I have had my Delta 14" saw for about 15 years and never got a handle on dust control. This device fills the bill. It is unfortunate Delta never cast in a 5" port on the saw in the first place. As mentioned in another review, the OEM collector port surely had to have been designed by someone with a great sense of humor! My new connector fit perfectly, out of the box. I appreciate the reviewer's tip to slot the existing trunnion hole. Good catch! Also, Delta has sized the exhaust port for sheet metal apparently (why?). It would not fit my Jet hose utill I got the heat gun out to stretch the "5" tubing.
All in all, it is a good product. One last item; I build the majority of my DC fittings but did want to tackle this one, Delta has overpriced this unit by a large amount (must have about twenty cents in material investment). Does not seem fair since they are responsible for the mess in the first place!

I purchased this dust collector for my 28-280 band saw, manufactured ca. 1997. The Delta 14" band saw has been in production for a very long time, and I do not know if the attachment points have remained unchanged all that time, but the dust collector was reasonably easy to fit to my saw. An inner tab fits behind a screw and washer, and in order to tighten that screw (with my largest Robertson screwdriver) I had to enlarge a drilled hole. An exterior tab is held by one of the trunnion handles and that tab had to be bent to fit, and I cut a slot in the tab so it can be slid in place, rather than having to remove the trunnion handle completely every time the collector is taken off, which is necessary in order to change blades. The port is 5" in diameter and fits my old Delta dust collector, the drum-top model, but that is not now the industry standard. Dust control is not perfect, but vastly better than the original part afforded, which was a joke, and it is not perfect specifically because this collector is designed to function with the table tilted 45 deg. If a person were to resaw a very toxic species like ebony I believe it would be both possible and necessary to modify this collector to better capture the dust which is deflected by the arrowhead shape of the lower blade guide, the main source of the tramp dust generated by this machine. I gave four stars because the collector has to be removed to change blades and Delta should have long since enlarged the screw access hole and possibly optimized the geometry.

The collector worked good after I got it installed.Some simple instructions would have made it a lot easier.I had to drill out a hole and do some bending to make it fit,but it was worth it.

I agree with the other reviewers. This is a poor design, obviously an after thought. I have DJ-15 that is a few years old. I have no intention of drilling holes in it. Also, the outlet is 5 inch, not 4 inch. I sent mine back, I plan to take the suggestion of the other reviewer and tape on a plastic one. Delta makes then for their newer 6 and 8 inch jointers.

Come on Delta, you can do better than this!

If you plan on buying a DJ-20, buy an inexpensive square table saw dust connector (about 1 ft. x 1 ft.), use 1 in. double sided foam tape (like the kind used to hand posters and such), and stick the connector to the side of the DJ-20. You won't be forced to drill any holes in your new expensive jointer, and you'll get a perfect seal around the connector.

My wife ordered this for me, since it was on my wishlist. She had purchased my Delta DJ-20 8" jointer from Amazon for my birthday, nice wife! Anyway, this dust connector is mounted with the included screws, but there are no holes in the side of my DJ-20 jointer. I'm going to have to drill holes in the side of my expensive jointer to use this connector. Would have preferred a simpler solution.